{"id":16152,"date":"2021-06-10T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/mortuary-science-alumna-gains-following-on-tik-tok\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:45:30","slug":"mortuary-science-alumna-gains-following-on-tik-tok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/mortuary-science-alumna-gains-following-on-tik-tok\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortuary Science alumna gains following on Tik Tok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Hollis, who graduated from Hudson Valley Community College in December 2016 with a degree in Mortuary Science, has grown popular on Tik Tok since she began posting videos on the social media app to combat the mandated isolation early in the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Hollis tells viewers what it&#8217;s like to be a funeral director and often answers questions, helping to reduce the anxiety some people feel about the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Her informative and entertaining posts have attracted news media attention, most recently articles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/2021\/06\/syracuse-mortician-goes-viral-on-tiktok-with-honest-videos-about-her-life-with-dead-people.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Post-Standard<\/a> (Syracuse) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/tiktok-morticians-frank-videos-are-helping-break-taboo-about-death-1598887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:45:30 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eileen Hollis, who graduated from Hudson Valley Community College in December 2016 with a degree in Mortuary Science, has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}